Sharp County record., 1887-01-20

ton. Something wrong, most certainly.
In some way there will be a new appor-
tionment. Many of the millionaire estates
will crack to pieces on the dissipatiOns Of
grandchildren, and then dissolve into
the possession of the masses who now
have an insufficiency.
What, you say, will become of the ex-
pensive and elaborate buildings now de-
voted to debasing amusementSs They will
become schools, art galleries, museums,
gymnasiums and churches. The world is
already getting disguised with these
| amusements, and no wonder What an
importation of unclean theatrical stuff we
have had within the last few years brought
to our shores And professors of religion
patronizing such things Having sold out
to the devil why don't you deliver the
goods and go over to him publicly, body,
mind and soul, and withdraw your name
from Christian churches and say: "KnoW
all the world by these presents that am
patron of uncleanness and child OF
hell.n Sworn to be the Lords, you are
perjurers.
But at last the tide has turned, and the
despisers Of purity oyerdid the matter. A
foreign actress Of base morals arrived, in
tending to make the tour of the States, but
the remaining decency of our cities rose up
and cancelled the contracts, and drove her
| back from our American stage-a woman
| fit for neither continent. In the name OF
Almighty God l take these denominations by
the throat. If you think these otenses are
to 90 on forever, you do not know who the
Lord is God will not wait for the day Of
Judgment. All these palaces of sin will
become palace of righteousness. They
will come into the possession OF those
strong for virtue and strong for God. HE
| shall divide the spoil with the strong"
China and Africa, the two richest por-
tions of the earth by reason of metals and
rare woods and ineXhaustible productive
ness, are not yet divided up among the
| good because they are not ready to be dl-
| vided. Wait until the doors that Living
stone opened in Africa shall be entered,
and Bishop Taylor with his band OF self
supporting missionaries have done their
| work, and the Ashantees and Senegambi-
ans shall know Christ as well as you know
Him, and there shall be on the banks OF
the Nile and the Niger higher civilization
than is now to be found on the banks OF
the Hudson, then Christ will divide up the
continent among His friends.
Wait until China, which is half as large
as all Europe, shall have developed her ca
pacities for rice, tea and sugar among edl-
bles; and her amethyst, and sapphire, and
topaz and opal, and jaSpar, and porhyry
among precious stones; and her rosewood,
and ebony, and camphor, and varnish trees
among precioxs woods; and turned up from
her depths half dozen Pennsylvania Of
| coal and iron, and twenty Nevadas of sill
yer, and fifty CALIFORNIA; Of gold, and her
| 1000, 900 of people shall be evangelical
then the Lord will divide it up among the
good
II my text be not deception, but an
eternal truth, then the time is coming
when all the farms will be owned by
Christian farmers, and all the commerce
controlled by Christian merchants, and all
the authority held by Christian officials,
and all the ships commanded by Christian
captains, and all the universities under the
| instructions of Christian professors,
Christian Kings, Christian Presidents,
| Christian Governors, Christian Mayors,
| Christian Common Council. Yet, what a
securing out! What an upturning! what
a demolition what resurrection, must
precede this new apportionmentI
| do not underrate the enemy. julius
| Caesar got his greatest victories by fully
estimating the vastness of his foes and
prepared his men for their greatest triumph
| by saying: Tomorrow King Juba will be
here with 10000 horses, 1O0,0 900 skirmishers
and 800 elephants" l do not underrate
the vast forces Of sin and death, but do you
| know who commands uss JehOvah-Jireh
And the reserve corps behind us are all
the armies of Heaven and earth, with hur-
rfcane and thunderbolt. The good work Of
the worlds redemption is going on every
minute Never so many noble men and
glorious women on the side Of right as to-
day. Never so many good people as now.
! Diogenes has been spoken OF as wise
man because he went with lantern at
MONDAY, saying he was looking for an
honest man. If he had turned his lantern
toward himself he might have discovered q
crank.
Honest men by the ten thousand !
Through the international series of Sun
day-scnool lessons the next generation all
through Christendom are going to be wiser
than any generation since the world stood.
| The kingdom is coming. God can do it,
No housewife with a chamois cloth ever
polished a silver teaspoon with more ease
| than Christ will rub off from this world
the tarnish and brighten it up till it glows
like Heaven, and then the glorious appor-
tionment, for my text is reenforced by a
score of other texts, when it says of
Christ: "He shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
But" you say, "that is pleasant to
think Of for others, but before that time
shall have passed into another existence,
and shall get no advantage from this new
apportionmeut.n All you have only driven
me to the more exciting and Transporting
consideration, and that is that Christ is
going to divide up Heaven in the same way.
| There are old estates in the celestial world
that have been in the possession Of its in
habitants for thousands of years, and they
shall remain as they are. There are old
family mansions in Heaven filled with
whole generations Of kindred, and they
shall never be driven out Many OF the
victors from earth have already got their
palaces, and they are pointed to those
newly arrived. Soon after our getting
there we will ask to be shown the apostolic
residences, and ask where does Paul live,
and John, and shown the patriarchal resi-
dences, and shall say: "Where does Abra-
ham live, or Jacob9n and shown the mar
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